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Julie Taymor's delirious, phantasmagoric, brutally powerful take on
a play that could not imaginably be better adapted for the screen. The
text is low on poetic sublimity, peddling relentless rhetoric,
violence and bombast; but Taymor fills so many of its voids with so much
design and passion that her film looks and sounds like a masterpiece.
It's an indulgent, self-parodic vision, a riot of excess, but the
potency of the acting, and Elliot Goldenthal's epically grotesque
score, do an amazing job of discovering depth beneath all the death.
Hopkins is fearlessly great; Harry Lennix, as Aaron the Moor,
astounding.
Tim Robey
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